{"id":2621,"date":"2012-06-17T22:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T02:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspiringathletes\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2012-06-17T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T02:54:27","slug":"mike-edwards-wins-second-nhra-race-of-2012-season-at-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspiringathletes\/2012\/06\/mike-edwards-wins-second-nhra-race-of-2012-season-at-bristol.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Edwards wins second NHRA race of 2012 season at Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspiringathletes\/files\/2012\/06\/EdwardsTrophy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2622\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/256\/2012\/06\/EdwardsTrophy-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Mike Edwards won his second NHRA race of the season and extended his winning streak at Bristol to four. With a near perfect .005-second light and his 6.674-second pass was enough to hold off Allen Johnson&#8217;s Dodge Avenger, which clocked a quicker but losing 6.661-second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know how you can describe something like [the final] in words,&#8221; Edwards said in a team press release. &#8220;Four zeros for the margin of victory. I just can&#8217;t believe it. Sometimes, we struggle just a little bit, and then we come to this place [Bristol], and we do well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edwards jumped to fourth place in the points standing with his victory.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more from Edwards in his Inspiring Athletes interview:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspiringathletes\/2011\/06\/nhra-pro-stock-champion-mike-edwards-on-winning-his-first-title-dealing-with-disappointment-and-working-with-young-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">A conversation with Mike Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Edwards won his second NHRA race of the season and extended his winning streak at Bristol to four. With a near perfect .005-second light and his 6.674-second pass was enough to hold off Allen Johnson&#8217;s Dodge Avenger, which clocked a quicker but losing 6.661-second. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know how you can describe something like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,759,4],"tags":[1042,325,323,36],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-athletes","category-drag-racing","category-sports-news","tag-allen-johnson","tag-bristol","tag-mike-edwards","tag-nhra"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mike Edwards wins second NHRA race of 2012 season at Bristol - Inspiring Athletes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspiringathletes\/2012\/06\/mike-edwards-wins-second-nhra-race-of-2012-season-at-bristol.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike Edwards wins second NHRA race of 2012 season at Bristol - Inspiring Athletes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike Edwards won his second NHRA race of the season and extended his winning streak at Bristol to four. 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